Why would I need to sight read, is someone pointing a gun to my head and saying "play this etude for me or I'll shoot!"? Seems a bit odd. When I do music for my band, I will learn the music (have it memorized) in no more than 3 days if it is a medium skill level piece. If it's harder maybe a bit longer, but I get it done so much quicker than every other instrument in the band. (We have to memorize our music for competition) it seems to be working as we have won state with this method, and gotten runner up as well. (In Texas) but idk, I say what works works. Don't change the feed on a winning horse.
You said never play in the yarn bank on the mallet but what about corales on marimba and your looking for a softer sound? Maybe this vid is just for vibe technique but corales on marimba are greatly benefited by using the yarn bank
For me I always like Steven's on marimba and burton on vibe, although I'm still learning and I have only been playing for about two years now, but I think that makes the most sense since Steven's allows very wide range and burton provides more control, so smaller board, smaller grip, bigger board, bigger grip.
idk man, the percussionists in my band are literally the best sight readers. Like I sit in front of the marimba as a pianist and we often double parts. They blaze through the grand stave way better than I do.
I’m glad this is going well. Drew Tucker is a great percussionist but very mean! He almost made me quit music because he made me feel so bad about not knowing things in high school! I’m glad I left and found an educator that actually cared about music students. Funny how as I am getting a degree in percussion performance and composition I stumble upon Drew Tucker. Small world I guess, I wonder if he thought I’d be getting a degree in percussion performance and composition.
I'm the only one who plays mallets in the orchestra i'm in at school (my friend, who can sight read, used to but left) and i'm struggling and miserable because i cant even play anything besides the super basic parts, and it sucks
I found this video a little late...thanks Google algorithm...or should I say algorhythm!!!! C'mon, that's a good one, you know you laughed. I do not disagree but as a teacher of beginners in a school setting, a middle school band director and a percussionist (21 years), here are my thoughts. 1. The #1 reason for lack of sight reading skills is a lack of practice sight reading. In early band classes students repeat the exercises soooooo many times that memorization is possible. You alluded to this in the video. 2. The second reason leading to a lack of SR skill is a class culture that makes it unsafe to make mistakes. Here's what I mean...and no, it's not that the teacher does anything wrong or is creating a toxic culture. Students must feel that it is okay to make mistakes. We need to quit pointing out every error!!! They know they messed up...seriously, they do. So when sight reading make other goals, the goal is never error free. For example: Did you start and stop with the group? Did you recover? Did you aim for the correct pitches (you can just plain miss the bars)? Practical solutions: 3. Note names are an impediment. Do not introduce note names until...as long as you can hold off. Seriously, it leads to "translation" slowing down the performer's reaction time therefore making it impossible to become effective sight readers. This note on the staff = that bar on the keyboard...it's all they need to know to play. the actual note names are irrelevant at this point. 4. rhythm > pitch 5. Make the instrument smaller ( you mentioned it in the video). 6. Use the black notes to find the white notes. D is the gap between the pair of black notes, only lower. DO NOT LOOK AT THE WHITE NOTES! (yes, I know, I just broke rule #3..fight me) 7. As stated in the video, start small, three notes and stepwise motion. 8. All experiences are all about building confidence. CONFIDENCE > PERFECTION. 9. Take your sweet time introducing new notes of larger skips...seriously, nothing kills confidence quicker than pacing that's too fast. 10. Sight read daily. Seems obvious, but I'm guilty of forgetting this too. 11. Sight Reading Diary - have students keep a sight reading diary of their thoughts and ratings for each day's sight reading. Self assessment! Buzzword bingo! Caveat: students must periodically read theor previous diary entries searching for patterns. I do a keyword wall...oh shoot, what is it called...where the most used words are large and less frequently used words are small...you get the idea right?
I played flute for 3 years before I started percussion so I was pretty good at sight reading but I've never been able to do it for mallets, it's just too difficult to watch both at the same time. much easier to just memorize it
I hate everything that has to do with keyboards in percussion I can't look at music and play the keyboards it's way different when playing snare drum or anything else in percussion.
This is why I’m failing band, it just got boring like insanely and with distance learning I just didn’t play because I found no use and it was so boring. And the teacher didn’t make it fun and I hate it. AND percussion was always left blind I just hated it I HATE IT DO MUCH I just don’t want to be in band anymore GOD.
Hey I don't know if u do things like this but I'm 11 years old and in fith grade I have just got my instrument and I'm starting band in two weeks but the problem is I don't remember how to read music can u make a video or recommend something to help???
You gotta look at the rhythm or make sure it's the right time signature. And if you're playing keyboards look at the staff and the letter notes should be F A C E on the space and E G B D on the lines
